Tonight's task was a welcome return to Florence Green to help at this lovely restored open space, We were met by Subo and a random passing volunteer and got down to work raking up leaves and grass and picking up sticks. What we lacked in tools we more than made up for in enthusiasm and soon the respective stick and leaf piles had grown to impressive heights. After a hour the place was looking significantly tidier and it was time to run off into the sunset.

The usual duo of Adi and Paul were out litter picking in Lewisham, Adi felt the chill winds from the north in Sydenham's Mayow Park. Paul was clearing up rubbish from by the side of the Ravensbourne in Deptford's Brookmill Park. Apart from a dumped chair in some brambles (reported through Love Clean Streets), it was mainly abandoned beer cans and water bottles - he couldn't help feeling that he wouldn't be needed if there was the same deposit system as they have in Germany, The Netherlands and probably other countries.

Paul was on set up duties at Catford parkrun this morning - carefully placing cones around what was home to Charlton Athletic 103 seasons ago.

The lovely Ms Y usually has a relatively small shop which is easy to carry; today’s though was a little different - there were double quantities of milk, washing up liquid and conditioner plus this month’s medications which her pharmacy hadn’t been able to deliver. Lots of cutting afterwards - as always it is just as important as the shop itself - Broadstairs and the terrible lot of the carer were the main topics.

When the lovely Mr J said he wanted some things from Iceland, I was ready to head to Reykjavik and then onto the black sands and stacks of Reynisfjara. Alas, it was picking up some frozen food from the store on Deptford High Street.

The rest of the shop was his usual mix of fruit and vegetables all purchased easily apart from small papayas.

An intrepid group of runners left Glass Mill a bit earlier than normal for our longest run of the year to Baring Road Allotments which are being converted from rubbish strewn abandoned ground into community allotments. We met Clare and Louise at the task.

We were issued with gloves and wheelbarrows which were skipped down to far end of the site, past sunflowers to collect rubbish, wood and bricks then trundled slowly back with the barrows to split into metals, wood and stone with the rest heading into the skip. We filled around a dozen barrows. It was a lovely task, in a beautiful location with plenty of wildlife (fox cub and loads of parakeets; Lindsay even had time to brush up her archery